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Friday, February 8, 2013

16-4 Fricker - Lesson of Equality

Fricker's testimonial injustice and views on discrimination appeared as common knowledge to the group. The simple concepts of equality seemed over complicated. Our biggest challenge with this discussion was trying to figure out why her views were seen as being thought provoking enough to be included in PB. It is hard to think that people need to be told not to discriminate, and that prejudices are wrong.

What drives prejudices is "ancestral blindness," which is correctable if the person is willing to correct their personal skewed ways of thinking. Hopefully people realize how much they limit themselves, and venture outside of their barriers. There is a lesson to be learned from everything and everyone. Ethnicity, gender, age, or sexual orientation are not reasons to hold value to any human over another.

The book has an example of getting advice from either a medical physician or a non professional individual. The concept is to listen to everyone equally but still use sense to determine who to trust, and who has authority on the matter.


5 comments:

  1. Jade Underland8:20 PM CST

    Yes, there was really no debate with this topic. Yes, be good to people! Do capital G Good. And treat people with dignity and do not act on your biases. One example that came up in our group is age and that it would be morally wrong to discredit someone based on it- to disregard their experiences. (16-4)

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  2. Lauren Lancto5:55 AM CST

    In my group, we discussed that by participating in "testimonial injustice" you're actually doing a pretty big injustice to yourself; essentially, you're robbing yourself of the knowledge that others may present to you by writing them off as -insert stereotype here- or as not having creditably. They may have something really important to say but you've already blocked them out with assumptions.
    A question we brought up was: Does Fricker consider excess an injustice then too?

    Lauren Lancto 14-4

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  3. Brittany1:53 PM CST

    We judge people unknowingly, whether we mean to or not. There are some judgments already preconceived. How do we force those notions of judgement away and really listen to what they have to say?

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    1. I honestly think it's as easy as just taking off these beer goggles of ignorance so as to get to something concrete. Whether this concrete idea stems off as first an argument at least the two ideas clashing in said debate are progressive. This can be in any instance of ignorance whether of inequality of gender, or even, like Jade stated, age discrimination.

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  4. Jade, I used to know your husband Will. We took a philosophy of religion in college at MTSU. Was wondering if you were still around this blog and if he could give me a shout. Tell him to email me at pcm2fchris@gmail.com if so. Thanks, Chris

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